Pausing a moment to catch my breath

Amid the whirlwind of wedding plans, I'll stop to let everyone know what's going on:

We're planning on an August wedding, here in Wisconsin. Don't have the exact date yet, but keep your calendars open for one of the Saturdays in August. :)

Right now am busy looking at dresses, and figuring out where to have reception, caterers, etc., etc.

Oh!!!!! I got a suprise in the mail for my birthday, that's what I was going to post about!!

Nick sent me an "Eternity Ring", which he informed me is the ring before the engagement ring. Its beautiful, and it says, "I love you," on it. It's even a perfect fit, and he guessed on the size. :P

Anyway, we have lots of cool ideas for the wedding/reception -- lots of work ahead, but while it may not be all classified as "fun", it will definately be worth it in the end.

We'll get there, one step at a time. Keep praying that a second job opens up (for me), and that his fiancee' Visa goes through without a hitch. Once that gets processed, my stress level will go down to zero, I promise. Actually, I'll be a whole lot happier once its been filled out and in the mail!!! It is rather quite complicated, if I say so myself.

Since he can enter the country only one time on the K-3 visa (fiancee' visa) which he needs to get here, then we obviously can't go on the honey-moon on the Queen Mary -- til' later. Alas, we shall have something to look forward to in the near and dear future.

So for our honey moon we are going -- wait!!! Why am I telling you guys? hehehehe... That's supposed to be a secret. Hmmmmmm... I'll give you a hint -- we're going camping -- in the wilderness somewhere, where I'm almost positve he'll see a bear, our campsite will be raided by said bear, and he will no longer think bears are cool. Perhaps we'll bring home a bear rug in that case, although I think not.

Aside from bears taking our food (or raccoons), I'm thinking we'll have an awesome camping trip -- well, we will if I can keep a fire going. :P

Well -- back to business -- will write more later. But don't forget to mark your calendars. Keith -- I hope you can make it to stand up for Nick, otherwise I'll have to go a-hunting -- and I may have to grab the village idiot that lurks about town and have him fill in at the last minute. Hehehe... if that happened, I have the perfect bridesmaid in mind... Oh dear, I just got a mental picture of him hitting on my bridesmaids. Which is scary (but also a little bit funny). Okay, okay, where did that come from??? I think I've had way too much coffee and chocolate and too much sugar in general. Toodles, people! This happy bride is off to conquer the snowy streets in her quest to reach home after fighting a battle of a hard days work (in the office).